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Hello, I'm Grace 👋🏼

I hope you like this FED (Front End Development) blog, a collation of mentoring advice...

My History

I come from a journalistic and design background, then taught myself front end development (FED) over the course of several years. My real passion though, is for equality, which has led me to take a keen interest in web accessibility.

I work for a fantastic agency based in Liverpool (UK), but am primarily remote, living in beautiful Cornwall. 💜

Why the blog?

For the last few years I've been spending loads of time mentoring junior or aspiring FEDs on Frontend Mentor. The problem with this, is a lot of the time I'm giving out the same advice again and again.

I hope this site will be a place to collate the common feedback I share and provide a lasting resource to help FEDs build inclusive accessible sites that follow good coding practices. I also hope it can help me to improve and document what I learn!

About this site

Although my primary goal is to help front end developers build using accessible practices, this site is also a bit of a playground for me to try out new things. It's built with 11ty using their base blog starter.

Thanks

During build I referred to various sources to help me with the tooling, including:

A11y Webring.Club

This site is a member of the a11y-webring.club — a network of digital accessibility practitioners.

Development Roadmap

I try to work out in the open, even though this repo is private for now... My to-do list for this site includes (in no particular order):

  • Add comment functionality using GitHub issues
  • Add an option to turn off variable font sizes (or maybe remove them altogether!)
  • Move the mailing list away from Mailchimp
  • Add light theme to code blocks
  • Add the language to code blocks
  • Add a copy button to code blocks
  • Complete a full a11y audit and backlog remediation works
  • Add a user control to turn all my styles off, if desired
  • Ensure all functionality works js-free
  • Make the table of contents sticky on the side of larger screens
  • Add a 'back to top' link somewhere… — complete Aug 2023
  • Tidy styles, maybe even use Tailwind… I'm still deciding on that one
  • Add user-preferences theme support — complete 21 Jan 2023
  • Add tables of contents to posts — complete 22 Jan 2023
  • Mute colors to (hopefully) improve experience for those with astygmatism — complete 23 Jan 2023

⚠️ If you have suggestions to improve this site, or you experience any usability issues with it, please get in touch.

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You're welcome! 😉

Contact

The best places to contact me are on the Frontend Mentor Discord server or via email at grace@fedmentor.dev.

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